About This Class

Painting Portraits with Acrylics

Learn how to portraits by starting from sketch, to background, to the final figure and finishing touches. Follow along with Ania as she shows you how to develop the skills to paint portraits: whether realistic, fantasy, or otherwise. Let her walk you through the process in a series of classes.

Get tips, tricks, and work along with her while she works on a commission piece: A Portrait of an Autumn Fairy

Step 1 Creating your Face Sketch

Often times, the main focus of the portrait is the person's face. Follow along with Ania as she explains the basics in understanding how to create your starting sketch, beginning with the face. Learn how face proportions work, explore different facial structure shapes and tricks, and learn to understand the face enough to paint what you see.

This class really gave me the basics for faces that I just never really grasped before. Ania does a great job with proportions and even saying these aren't hard fast rules cause everyone's faces are so different and that is what makes them unique.
I learned a lot and can't wait to keep drawing faces so I can get better! Would absolutely recommend this class!

ANIA ONION BULA is the owner and main creator at AniaOnion Creations: An Etsy shop where she sells her assorted paintings and other creations.Her work can also be found on Redbubble where her various paintings are available on a variety of interesting products like stickers, phone cases, clothing, pillow cases, and notebooks!

Her work includes portrains often done in a fantasy style, as well as paintings of dancing figures, movement pieces, and the occasional political statement. ...